Gwendolyn Stacy (Earth-1610)

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History

Gwen Stacy was a teenage girl at Peter's high school who soon became close friends with Peter. In contrast to her classic counterpart, Gwen was often loud and rebellious and often dressed in risque clothing. In this continuity, her eyes are amber-colored.^[1]

Gwen arrived on the scene with a bang. She gave a rousing speech on 'super powers' in today's societies; and later pulled a knife on Kong, a classmate who was bullying Peter. She was suspended from school temporarily.

Gwen became friends with Peter after that (at one point stopping by his house for help after a possible suicide attempt), which led Mary-Jane Watson to believe that Gwen was vying for his affections.

Gwen was later taken in by Aunt May after her father, Police Captain George Stacy, was killed by a burglar wearing a Spider-Man costume. Her estranged mother did not want to take her in. Her living in the Parker house created more tension between Peter and his girlfriend, and led to their temporary break-up. Peter's relationship with Gwen was further complicated by her hatred of Spider-Man, whom she blamed for her father's death.

She eventually learned that Peter was Spider-Man and pulled her father's gun on him. Fortunately, he managed to convince her that he was not to blame for her father's death, and she agreed to keep his secret.

Gwen made peace with Mary Jane and assured her that she never had romantic feelings for Peter, and that she considered him just as a friend (or, in her words, "her superhero little brother"). Later that night, she was killed by Carnage^[2], a vampiric monster made by the splicing of genetic material from Peter Parker and Dr. Curt Connors, as well as possibly pieces of the Venom suit still in Peter's body. Although Peter was not in the area when she died, he still felt some responsibility for her death, as he allowed Dr. Connors to use his genetic material for experimentation, although it was used in a manner of which he had no knowledge, much less approval.

Flash made an off-color remark about Gwen's passing, and it led to a fight that ended up with him, Peter, MJ, Kong and Liz in detention. There it was revealed that Flash had a crush on Gwen all along, and he felt bad that he never got the nerve to ask her out. Also, upon cleaning out Gwen's locker, Peter and MJ discover a photo of them smiling with Gwen hanging inside the locker, dating from a time the three skipped school earlier. "She really did like us," said MJ.^[3]

Later, Gwen Stacy seemingly returned^[4]. This Gwen turned out to be a clone of Gwen that the original Carnage Symbiote was using as a host. When Carnage was first created, he was a monster of instinct, with no intelligence or self awareness, with his only aim to devour the DNA of others to sustain himself. After "devouring" Gwen, this incarnation of Carnage had gone on to mimic her "essence" and now believed itself to be Gwen Stacy. She/It was captured and contained by S.H.I.E.L.D. after throwing chaos into Peter's life once again. ^[5]

During its confinement at the Triskelion, the Gwen Stacy clone had been taking from some form of therapy with Tony Stark and a team of doctors in the compound. While having a therapy lesson, Norman Osborn as the Green Goblin caused a massive prison break in which in the confusion, Gwen Stacy escape from the Triskelion^[6]. Stacy swam to Manhattan and went to the Parker's house in a confused and terrified state, with Carnage's face on her body. During an exchange between Peter and Gwen, Eddie Brock came and tried to attack Aunt May to get into the house, and retake his symbiote. After Peter attacked Brock and engaged him as Venom on a industrial rooftop, and Gwen followed behind. During the fight, Gwen was able to use her Symbiote to fight off Eddie, but Eddie reabsorbed his symbiote along with the Carnage symbiote, rendering Gwen Stacy an average girl.

SHIELD and Iron Man intervened, and had her checked at the Triskelion. Peter and May Parker came to the SHIELD base, and Peter questioned Tony Stark (Iron Man) about how Gwen wasn't the real article. Iron Man reassured him that if she was biologically 100% Gwen Stacy, and had her mind, "then who are they to say she's anything but Gwen Stacy". Following this, however, SHIELD Director Carol Danvers stated that Gwen would remain in SHIELD custody. Peter and May argued for her to come back to live with them, with Tony Stark supporting the Parkers. Danvers relented and released Gwen to the Parkers.

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Notes

• Although not directly related with Gwen Stacy, her death from the 616 universe was paid homage to early in the series. Ultimate Spider-Man #25 (possibly a tribute to MJ, since her first appearance was in The Amazing Spider-Man #25) (October 2002), the Green Goblin tossed Mary Jane off a bridge (the bridge was identified as the Queensboro Bridge in the next issue, Ultimate Spider-Man #26) in a situation nearly identical to the death of Gwen Stacy in Earth-616, including such details as Spider-Man catching her leg with his webbing. Issue #25 ended with a cliffhanger: when Spider-Man pulled Mary Jane up to the bridge she appeared to be either unconscious or dead. The cliffhanger was resolved in the next issue when Mary Jane awoke, uninjured.

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